[PATCH] Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD"

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/09/2017 08:44, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "Jan H. Schönherr" <jschoenh at amazon.de> writes:
> 
>> This reverts commit 36ae3c0a36b7456432fedce38ae2f7bd3e01a563.
>>
>> The commit broke compilation on !CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING. Also,
>> there may be cases with CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING, where larger
>> gsi values make sense.
>>
>> As the commit was meant as an early indicator to user space that
>> something is wrong, reverting just restores the previous behavior
>> where overly large values are ignored when encountered (without
>> any direct feedback).
>>
>> Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh at amazon.de>
>> ---
>>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Can someone merge this or preferably just send it straight to Linus, the
> original patch has broken the powerpc build in mainline.

I can send it later today.

Paolo